- Industry: Mining
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
A modified Ugine-Sejournet process for hot extrusion of steel and other metals. The basic difference between the original Sejournet extrusion process and the Scaife modification is one of direction. In the Sejournet, the billet is forced forward through the die with the mandrel projecting through the die to maintain internal shape. In the modified process, the billet is forced into the closed die and the ram pressure squeezes it back over the mandrel. Both are based on the use of molten glass as a lubricant.
Industry:Mining
A molding machine having a flask or flasks that may be turned over for ramming the sand.
Industry:Mining
A molecular mixture of thallium malonate and thallium formate. Used as a heavy solution for the separation of minerals. The solution has a maximum density of 4.25 g/cm<sub>3</sub>at 20 degrees C. It is prepared by adding formic acid to one of two equal quantities of thallium carbonate, and adding malonic acid to the other until each is neutralized. The 621 two solutions are then mixed, filtered, and evaporated until almandite floats. Compare: Sonstadt solution; Klein solution; bromoform; methylene iodide.
Industry:Mining
A molybdenum-iron alloy produced in the electric furnace or by a thermite process. It is used to introduce molybdenum into iron or steel alloys and as a coating material on welding rods.
Industry:Mining
A monkey shaft down which earth and other matter are lowered by means of a drop (that is, a kind of pulley with brake attached); the empty bucket is brought up as the full one is lowered.
Industry:Mining
A monocable cableway in which the track cable has a slope of about 1 in 4 over its whole length, sufficiently steep to allow the carrier to run down under its own weight.
Industry:Mining
A monoclinic and hexagonal mineral, FeS ; invariably deficient in iron; variably ferrimagnetic; metallic; bronze yellow with iridescent tarnish; in mafic igneous rocks, contact metamorphic deposits, high-temperature veins, and granite pegmatites. Where associated with pentlandite and nickel replaces iron, it is a source of nickel. Also spelled pyrrhotine.
Industry:Mining
A monoclinic and hexagonal mineral, FeS ; invariably deficient in iron; variably ferrimagnetic; metallic; bronze yellow with iridescent tarnish; in mafic igneous rocks, contact metamorphic deposits, high-temperature veins, and granite pegmatites. Where associated with pentlandite and nickel replaces iron, it is a source of nickel. Also spelled pyrrhotine.
Industry:Mining
